Coaching & Mentoring

Have you considered securing the services of a mentor or coach as tool for your personal and professional development. What are the benefits of coaching or mentoring, and how can you achieve the best outcome?

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A Guide To Maximising Your Time In Mentoring Meetings

by David Brown

So you've got a mentoring programme in place that you're involved in, (either as a mentor or protégé). How do you go about making the most of your meetings?

Creating A Competitive Advantage Through Coaching

by Norman Schippers and Ken Carnes

Managing is to have responsibility for some aspect of execution within the business. Leading is to influence direction, action and opinion. Coaching is to inspire commitment and high performance, to stimulate creativity and to model accountability. Clearly, establishing a culture built around coaching is one way that organisations can create a powerful competitive advantage. Traditionally, however, business leaders have spent far too much time managing, some time leading and very little time coaching.

Why Coach?

by Peter Fullbrook

Research tells us that classroom training (whether it be real or virtual) is only appropriate for 15% of development needs (Rummler 1995). Not only does this cause concern about the effectiveness of training events, it also raises the tantalising question of what is appropriate if training is not?

Performance Coaching - Giving Business A Sporting Chance

by Ambit Recruitment

Just as sports coaches are integral to attaining the best possible performance from athletes, organisational performance coaching is providing employers with an extra dimension of competitive commercial advantage.

Mentoring - The Benefits To Business

by NSW Business Chamber

Few new employees, or employees new to a position, are able to "hit the ground running" without guidance. This guidance may be in the form of staff training, or in coaching or mentoring situations.

Let’s Do It...Let’s Choose A Coach!

by Kathryn Nicholson Perry

In the words of the song: birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it–. Well, maybe not the fleas, but executive coaches are being used increasingly in business today - but how to choose from the wide range on offer?

Coaching

by Ray Kelly

What is coaching, its purpose, some of the benefits and more...

Mentoring - How To Get The Most Out Of A Mentor

by Marcus Powe

A quick guide to getting the most out of your mentor.

Executive Mentoring

by Brian Birley

The day to day pressures on senior and middle management are increasing in line with the accelerating rate of technological change and market globalisation. Mentoring, closely aligned to coaching, is a method of providing managers with an oppportunity to improve their performance and their lifestyle.

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